Background

Mr. Alberto Ibargüen has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of John S. & James L. Knight Foundation since July 2005. Mr. Ibargüen serves as a Senior Advisor on the International Advisory Board of the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University. He served as the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Public Broadcasting Service. He served as Publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald, capping a newspaper ... career of over 20 years. He served as Chairman of the Miami Herald Publishing Company, a Knight Ridder subsidiary that publishes newspapers in print and online, tourist publications and other magazines. He first became a Newspaper Executive with Times Mirror Co. (now Tribune Company) in 1984 as Senior Vice President for finance and administration of The Hartford Courant. He served as an Executive Vice President of Newsday and New York Newsday. He served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela. Before venturing into his newspaper career, he practiced law in Hartford, Connecticut. He founded the Puerto Rican Center for Justice as part of the Hartford Legal Aid Society, and later practiced law at Updike, Kelly & Spellacy in Hartford. Mr. Ibargüen served as Chairman of the Board at Freedom Forum Newseum Inc. and of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Norwegian Cruise Line Holding Ltd. (Formerly NCL Corporation Ltd.), since July 31, 2006. He has been an Independent Director of Pepsico Inc. since October 1, 2005 and American Airlines Group Inc. since December 2013. He has been a Director of American Airlines Inc. since January 2008. He serves as a Director at Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. and Freedom Forum Newseum Inc, The. He serves as a Trustee of Freedom Forum Inc. and as Trustee of University of Miami. He serves as Trustee of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He has been a Director of AOL, Inc. since February 2011. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Tsinghua University. Mr. Ibargüen served as a Director of Public Broadcasting Service. He has also served on the boards of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Wesleyan University and Smith College. He serves on the Board of the Newseum museum in Washington, DC, and is a member of the Trustees' Council of the National Gallery of Art. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. For his work to protect journalists in Latin America as part of the Inter American Press Association, Ibarguen received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University and George Washington University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters. Mr. Ibargüen studied BA in History from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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